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...into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance had the approval of higher church authorities, obtaining permission to invade the diocese from Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Back in Pittsburgh last week, Fathers Rice and Hensler busied themselves lecturing, answering catechismal questions such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priests, Pickets, Pickle Workers | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched the Sun like a cat at a mousehole. The editor-in-chief put his sheet to bed with a Federal marshal literally looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Century of Suns | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Even official Berlin broadcasts admitted the Italians had suffered heavy losses, Rome was mum with mortification, and Madrid broadcasters had the Italians fleeing headlong as at Caporetto, in utter rout, abandoning field guns, anti-tank guns, ammunition, food and even that soldiers' treasure-cigarets-as Soviet bombing and pursuit planes harried them from the skies' and Red Militiamen charged after them through deep mud and slush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Unfortunate Manure | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...parties united in stormily denouncing the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association last week. During the months and years in which the story of Mrs. Simpson grew abroad, the docile N. P. A. muzzled itself under Government pressure and kept mum as long as possible, but recently its reporters and cameramen have "got completely out of hand"-in the House of Commons' opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...never polished up the handle of any big front door. Now retired, with bluff British candor he admits: "I spend my time on meditating on my utterly misspent but thoroughly enjoyable past." Though he served all through the War, he never mentions that he ever saw action, is mum's self on the subject of his D.S.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bulldog Sea Dog | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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